WASHINGTON, Jan 26: The US-installed Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that he knew people called him “a puppet of America” and he was willing to accept this image because without US help Afghanistan would have been occupied by its neighbours and Al Qaeda.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, — An American woman and her Afghan driver were kidnapped by gunmen in this southern town Saturday morning on her way to work, the provincial governor said.

According to sources from Wilayah Ghalghaycho (Ingushetia) of the Caucasus Emirate, on 18 Muharram 1429 (26 January 2008) thousands of people went out to the streets of Nazran to participate in the rally, which was previously announced by anti-Zyazikov’s opposition.